An artist’s rendering of ancient Arctic hyenas belonging to the genus Chasmaporthetes. A new study reports that two enigmatic fossil teeth found in Yukon Territory in Canada belonged to ...

We may not regard hyenas as the most adorable animals, but they are both fascinating and impressive. Despite having the appearance of a rather thin and scruffy dog, they belong to the Feliformia ...

These were the teeth of ancient hyenas — specifically Chasmaporthetes, or “running hyenas,” known for their speed and endurance. Although only four hyena species exist today, ...

Prehistoric Hyena’s Teeth Show Bone-Crushing Carnivore Roamed the Arctic The only hyena to live in North America, Chasmaporthetes, had the stature of a wolf and the powerful jaws of its modern ...

Modern hyenas are known as hunters and scavengers in Asian and African ecosystems such as the savanna. But in ancient times, these powerful carnivores also roamed a very different landscape, ...

About 65,000 years ago, a large carnivore — perhaps a cave hyena — chomped down on the face of a (likely dead) Neanderthal. Then, that carnivore partially digested two of the hominin's teeth ...

Hyena vs. Wild Dog: Bite Power and Teeth. Both animals use their teeth to do damage to others. Hyenas have one of the most powerful bites in the world at 1,100PSI and use their 34 conical teeth to ...

Paleontologists, who recovered the teeth in the 1970s, tentatively thought them to belong to hyenas, but the new paper is the first to confirm the fossils' identity and report on them in detail. The ...

The two isolated teeth were identified from over 50,000 mammal fossils collected over the course of the last 100 years in the Old Crow Basin. The hyena fossils were recovered in the 1970s and ...

Grant Zazula/Government of Yukon The teeth date to between 850,000 and 1.4 million years ago, Tseng says, placing the hyenas in the Arctic during the Pleistocene Ice Age, which began roughly 2.6 ...

Baby Hyena Teeth Baby hyenas are born with teeth that are fully erupted by the age of two months. These are deciduous teeth (commonly known as baby teeth) and will be lost and replaced by adult teeth.

Hyena skulls are robust and elongated, with short jaws that give them a powerful grip. Hyenas typically have a total of 32-34 teeth in the following dentition pattern:. Incisors: 3 upper/3 lower ...